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Introduction to Judges & Deborah

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 1hrs 4mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the book of Judges about?

a)

Israel's fight against the Canaanites.

b)

Israel's total failure

c)

Israel following God

2.

What do the Israelites fail to do?

a)

Drive out the Canaanite people

b)

Make friends with the Canaanites

c)

Move into the promised land

3.

Who was the first Judge of Israel?

a)

Othniel

b)

Deborah

c)

Samson

4.

Who was the only female judge of Israel?

a)

Sarah

b)

Deborah

c)

Rachel

5.

Who was the last judge of Israel?

a)

Samson

b)

Ehud

c)

Gideon

6.

What was the role of the judges in the OT?

a)

to decide law suits, property disputes and other civil matters

b)

rule on the evidence against the accused

c)

sentence criminals for their crimes

d)

govern the people and lead the army

7.

Why did the people turn to idols?

a)

they wanted a god they could see

b)

they were influenced by the Canaanites and their rituals

c)

they preferred to rely upon themselves rather than God

d)

All of these were reasons

8.

What would happen whenever the people returned to idol worship?

a)

they were defeated and made slaves

b)

the harvest would be more plentiful

c)

many children and livestock were born

d)

they would win all their battles

9.

What did God command that the people failed to do?

a)

not work on the Sabbath

b)

drive out all the Canaanites

c)

build a wall around their camp

d)

become friends with the Canaanites

10.

During this time, the Israelites kept repeating the same cycle.

Which is the correct order?

a)

Sin, Slavery, Sorrow, Salvation

b)

Salvation, Sorrow, Slavery, Sin

c)

Sin, Sorrow, Slavery, Salvation

d)

Salvation, Slavery, Sin, Sorrow

11.

What does the cycle of sin and salvation show us about God?

a)

He is an angry god

b)

He forgives and delivers again and again

c)

He is not very patient

d)

He wants Israel to do things for themselves

12.

Which familiar Bible story is found in Judges?

a)

Samson and Delilah

b)

Daniel and the Lions

c)

Crossing the Red Sea

d)

Elijah and the prophets of Baal

13.

The time of the judges lasted about how long?

a)

100-150 years

b)

200-250 years

c)

300-350 years

d)

400-450 years

14.

Who were the only judges that never had anything negative said about them in the Book of Judges?

a)

Jephthah and Gideon

b)

Gideon and Deborah

c)

Gideon and Samson

d)

Deborah and Othniel

15.

What is the overall theme of the book of Judges?

a)

The people sinned but then obeyed.

b)

The people did what was right in their own eyes.

c)

The people realized their mistakes.

d)

The people trusted God.

16.

Match the following

a)

Lappidoth

1.

Deborah's husband

b)

The Canaanite King Jabin

2.

Israel's enemy

c)

Barak

3.

Deborah asked him to lead the army

d)

10,000

4.

The number of Israelite soldiers

e)

Wrote a song and led Israel in worship

5.

Deborah

17.

Match the following

a)

Barak

1.

Refused to lead the army without Deborah

b)

Jael

2.

Killed the leader of the Canaanite army

c)

Sisera

3.

The Canaanite general

d)

Mount Tabor

4.

Where Israel's army attacked from

e)

40 years

5.

The length of peace that followed the battle

18.

What is ONE lesson that we can learn from the book of Judges in the bible?

4 lines
19.

"God's purpose is so that we can see his glory." What does "see his glory" mean?

4 lines
20.

Reorder the following

a)

Lord...

b)

may your friends

c)

shine like

d)

the rising

e)

sun

1)
2)
3)
4)
5)